Socrates

SOCRATES Contributions · Elenchos-> Became Scientific Method: Process of breaking a problem into separate questions, and each one brings you closer to the answer. · Elenchos was used to discover a person’s true beliefs, among other things. · Challenged conventions. · Emphasized a more simplistic life.

Criticism · People did not believe he was a philosopher, instead, they saw him as a man trying to over throw the Athenian government. · Sentenced to death because of this believed heresy.

Socratic Problem: There is no evidence that Socrates wrote any texts to support his philosophies or any autobiographical documents, his existence is only found in four primary sources: Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, and their information could imply a level of creativity or imagination.

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